Saturday, November 7, 2009

RPGs On Wave

Role playing games were an obvious choice for a bunch of geeks looking for something interesting to do on Google Wave. Out of necessity game play must use a text based narrative style since graphical extensions suitable for a tactical style game, are not available yet. I expect that will be one the first type of Wave extension to emerge once developers get into their stride.

The narrative style is interesting because you end up with complete story written collaboratively by the players. This is something you never got when playing around a table, unless someone recorded and transcribed the conversation. I've never met anyone who would volunteer for that job!

One method for formatting the narrative is described here, but even that is likely to change as everyone gains experience with medium. Hopefully the narrative style will continue after the graphical tools become available.

If you are on Wave, then this wave will get you started. If you do not have a Wave account, this Ars Technica article explains some of the difficulties.

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